You don't understand... there's a glass ceiling of black education. If they break through that ceiling, they suddenly lose the street cred and become white. Now, if he had made his money off of music, then he'd be a hero. It all makes sense if you just ignore logic.
"I'm a PC, and a human being. Not a human doing; not a human thinking. A human being."
Yeah, that made me go: "huh!"
If I understand it, they want people to understand that PCs aren't for doing anything, aren't for thinking about anything, just sitting there... being. I guess it's true to the other commercial in some regards. Don't think, don't do, just watch this fun video of Mojave we made!
They are managing my right to copy the files and use the application. Rather, restricting my right to simply copy the files and use it on another computer without asking them (via the online service, or the installer CD) permission to run the program.
I asked a Chinese friend of mine, he said it sounds like it comes from the Chinese word for cosmos. Then I looked it up on Wikipedia and it states it's from taikong ren (yes, I butchered the accents of that) using using taikon- for cosmo- or astro- in English.
I'd have to argue that moving people to Linux in any form is promoting just that. Competition between distros, bare or simplified. If you want all the fancy interface options offered by Ubuntu, you can use them. However, if you want to use a bare GUI, install Xfce (or even bare X) or something. Even if you want to work in the terminal, you still have that choice. I don't see why you'd be upset at a particular distribution that you don't have to use. Getting companies/people to develop on Linux in any form is beneficial to every distribution. Especially if they end up open sourcing the project so others can add in their preferred methods.
Your last statement confuses me since you can't use IE in Linux/Palm/Unicos (easily/at all) so how could someone decide what they wanted to use if a certain software company doesn't make it's applications compatible with your kernel?
Look at it this way. If you have 1000 people using Linux now and you have 10 people that think the same way you do, when you scale the user base up to 10,000, you're more likely to find some intelligence in the new crowd and at least double your available options. It won't scale up perfectly, but there WILL be more people that tend to think the same things and you may find that even though Ubuntu brought them in, your preferences will benefit from even one or two more interested parties improving the basics. Since Linux is the way it is, all distributions have a better chance of benefiting from said technology easier than porting that flashy new code editor/game/utility from Windows to Mac.
Stardock is DRM though. Try removing the sig.bin file and see how fast you get rejected for not having a valid copy of the game. It will ask you to validate it.
If you install it, it will automatically validate (behind the scenes) the copy after the install. If you copy it from one hard drive to another (as the case of mine since it was a digital download and I had the files) it needs to validate your installation. It still runs after validation, but it still needs to do that step before it will run.
Stardock claims to be DRM free, but they still activate the games and they prevent copying of the game files without installation and activation with this semi transparent DRM. If you are missing the sig.bin binary signature file of your installation or it doesn't match your current PC's signature, the game will not run until it is re-activated.
Are they truly DRM free or are they only using it as a sales pitch like Stardock?
Please read my other post on this. I was able to get Stardock Central to run. I have a screen capture of the "Activate Application" menu option and everything. As I've stated before. The process my have been pretty seamless, but it's still making a specific sig.bin file in the install directory of the game. If you attempt to copy the game to another machine and or change it drastically, you will be prompted to re-activate the game.
I tried registry and everything. It still did not take it. Also, I posted above about the sig.bin file, but this is how the game's DRM works. It basically required a hardware signature file to be generated using the Stardock software.
Yeah, I can go into Stardock Central and "activate" my game so I can use it, and that's the DRM I'm talking about. Here's a screen cap. Until I do this process of opening Stardock Central, logging in, and activating it... my game is locked out and will not run.
It's Stardock Central (which I assume was the precursor to Impulse) and it crashes pretty hard on my Windows machine right now or I'd try to download just a singular patch and test it since I haven't played in forever. Either way, If I copy my files to another machine and try to run them, I will be asked to validate my copy which is hardware enforced DRM.
Move, or rename the file sig.bin file and try to run the game. This is a digital hardware signature generated by the DRM software in Stardock. Without this digital signature that is generated from a hardware signature it will not run. You will be prompted to activate your copy.
Just booted my Windows PC and looked. There is a file in the root of the game folder called sig.bin. This is a digital hardware signature. Without this file, you will be prompted to use Stardock Product Activation in order to use your game. This is DRM.
Did you patch them? If you did, then they changed the service since I used it. I could not use my Stardock GalCiv2 game without first validating it with the Stardock service after copying the files to another PC. If you "install" the game on all the machines, either through the download or Cd, you are using the DRM built into the game to validate your copy. If you had the download copy, the DRM verification happens after the files are extracted locally. You are still validating your copy (though it was probably seemless to you since you installed it using the service or the disc) but you just don't see it happen.
If you manually copy (copy/paste) the game to a portable drive and try to run it from another machine, it will give you a license error.
No, I had "purchased" Galciv2 from Stardock about a year(?) ago. I downloaded the game, played it, and copied the files to my laptop. I went to play it on there and it said my license key was invalid or it didn't match my hardware key... don't remember the exact error. I went on the forum to check on why my "DRM Free" game would not run and it was because I needed Stardock's software in order to validate my copy. I had to manually run some software validation process to enable the game to run on my machine. This is my _experience_ with Stardock and their claim to have a DRM free system.
Galciv 2. The DVD/CD (whatever, I don't remember) doesn't require validation unless you want to patch it because it has a manual key process. This doesn't mean the games is TOTALLY DRM free. It just means that they put the DRM on the disc and the process of putting in your key is the Digital copy protection. I bought the Stardock version of GalCiv and was told that I would need to pay extra to get the hardcopy version of the game, and I would not be allowed to patch the bugs without using the Stardock software to validate my copy. This all started because I assumed it was a DRM free copy, so I copied all the files to my laptop to use it on vacation. I found out that I needed the Stardock software to validate my copy on the other machine. That IS the definition of DRM.
The game does have DRM on it. Saying that the game is COMPLETELY DRM free as the company and people are saying is false. It's like saying that your house is totally key free just because you don't put the key in the door to open it. You may not use it (knowingly), but it's there.
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You don't understand... there's a glass ceiling of black education. If they break through that ceiling, they suddenly lose the street cred and become white. Now, if he had made his money off of music, then he'd be a hero. It all makes sense if you just ignore logic.
So now we hate authors too?
I suddenly feel like hating you for authoring that post...
It does have it's uses, but like anything risque in society people will try to control and/or ban it for all the wrong reasons.
"I'm a PC, and a human being. Not a human doing; not a human thinking. A human being."
Yeah, that made me go: "huh!"
If I understand it, they want people to understand that PCs aren't for doing anything, aren't for thinking about anything, just sitting there... being. I guess it's true to the other commercial in some regards. Don't think, don't do, just watch this fun video of Mojave we made!
(in honor of today)
And the Pirates vs. Ninjas arguments.
You forgot: "In The 21st Century Nations Don't Invade Other Nations"
They are managing my right to copy the files and use the application. Rather, restricting my right to simply copy the files and use it on another computer without asking them (via the online service, or the installer CD) permission to run the program.
I asked a Chinese friend of mine, he said it sounds like it comes from the Chinese word for cosmos. Then I looked it up on Wikipedia and it states it's from taikong ren (yes, I butchered the accents of that) using using taikon- for cosmo- or astro- in English.
So, what's the direct translation of taikonaut, so I can start using that?
Silly AC, you never had any points. ;)
It's what Republicans do.
Please don't lump all of one party into one stereotype. You are only playing into their game of "good cop/bad cop".
Though, I most likely won't be voting for McCain OR Obama, I don't think it's right to group someone by what someone else has done.
Unfortunately, It was still an issue with my Mom. She was looking for a blue icon called "Internet".
I'd have to argue that moving people to Linux in any form is promoting just that. Competition between distros, bare or simplified. If you want all the fancy interface options offered by Ubuntu, you can use them. However, if you want to use a bare GUI, install Xfce (or even bare X) or something. Even if you want to work in the terminal, you still have that choice. I don't see why you'd be upset at a particular distribution that you don't have to use. Getting companies/people to develop on Linux in any form is beneficial to every distribution. Especially if they end up open sourcing the project so others can add in their preferred methods.
Your last statement confuses me since you can't use IE in Linux/Palm/Unicos (easily/at all) so how could someone decide what they wanted to use if a certain software company doesn't make it's applications compatible with your kernel?
Look at it this way. If you have 1000 people using Linux now and you have 10 people that think the same way you do, when you scale the user base up to 10,000, you're more likely to find some intelligence in the new crowd and at least double your available options. It won't scale up perfectly, but there WILL be more people that tend to think the same things and you may find that even though Ubuntu brought them in, your preferences will benefit from even one or two more interested parties improving the basics. Since Linux is the way it is, all distributions have a better chance of benefiting from said technology easier than porting that flashy new code editor/game/utility from Windows to Mac.
Stardock is DRM though. Try removing the sig.bin file and see how fast you get rejected for not having a valid copy of the game. It will ask you to validate it.
If you install it, it will automatically validate (behind the scenes) the copy after the install. If you copy it from one hard drive to another (as the case of mine since it was a digital download and I had the files) it needs to validate your installation. It still runs after validation, but it still needs to do that step before it will run.
Stardock claims to be DRM free, but they still activate the games and they prevent copying of the game files without installation and activation with this semi transparent DRM. If you are missing the sig.bin binary signature file of your installation or it doesn't match your current PC's signature, the game will not run until it is re-activated.
Are they truly DRM free or are they only using it as a sales pitch like Stardock?
Damnit... here's the link: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=962799&cid=24987981
Please read my other post on this. I was able to get Stardock Central to run. I have a screen capture of the "Activate Application" menu option and everything. As I've stated before. The process my have been pretty seamless, but it's still making a specific sig.bin file in the install directory of the game. If you attempt to copy the game to another machine and or change it drastically, you will be prompted to re-activate the game.
I tried registry and everything. It still did not take it. Also, I posted above about the sig.bin file, but this is how the game's DRM works. It basically required a hardware signature file to be generated using the Stardock software.
Yeah, I can go into Stardock Central and "activate" my game so I can use it, and that's the DRM I'm talking about. Here's a screen cap. Until I do this process of opening Stardock Central, logging in, and activating it... my game is locked out and will not run.
It's Stardock Central (which I assume was the precursor to Impulse) and it crashes pretty hard on my Windows machine right now or I'd try to download just a singular patch and test it since I haven't played in forever. Either way, If I copy my files to another machine and try to run them, I will be asked to validate my copy which is hardware enforced DRM.
Move, or rename the file sig.bin file and try to run the game. This is a digital hardware signature generated by the DRM software in Stardock. Without this digital signature that is generated from a hardware signature it will not run. You will be prompted to activate your copy.
Just booted my Windows PC and looked. There is a file in the root of the game folder called sig.bin. This is a digital hardware signature. Without this file, you will be prompted to use Stardock Product Activation in order to use your game. This is DRM.
Did you patch them? If you did, then they changed the service since I used it. I could not use my Stardock GalCiv2 game without first validating it with the Stardock service after copying the files to another PC. If you "install" the game on all the machines, either through the download or Cd, you are using the DRM built into the game to validate your copy. If you had the download copy, the DRM verification happens after the files are extracted locally. You are still validating your copy (though it was probably seemless to you since you installed it using the service or the disc) but you just don't see it happen.
If you manually copy (copy/paste) the game to a portable drive and try to run it from another machine, it will give you a license error.
No, I had "purchased" Galciv2 from Stardock about a year(?) ago. I downloaded the game, played it, and copied the files to my laptop. I went to play it on there and it said my license key was invalid or it didn't match my hardware key... don't remember the exact error. I went on the forum to check on why my "DRM Free" game would not run and it was because I needed Stardock's software in order to validate my copy. I had to manually run some software validation process to enable the game to run on my machine. This is my _experience_ with Stardock and their claim to have a DRM free system.
Galciv 2. The DVD/CD (whatever, I don't remember) doesn't require validation unless you want to patch it because it has a manual key process. This doesn't mean the games is TOTALLY DRM free. It just means that they put the DRM on the disc and the process of putting in your key is the Digital copy protection. I bought the Stardock version of GalCiv and was told that I would need to pay extra to get the hardcopy version of the game, and I would not be allowed to patch the bugs without using the Stardock software to validate my copy. This all started because I assumed it was a DRM free copy, so I copied all the files to my laptop to use it on vacation. I found out that I needed the Stardock software to validate my copy on the other machine. That IS the definition of DRM.
The game does have DRM on it. Saying that the game is COMPLETELY DRM free as the company and people are saying is false. It's like saying that your house is totally key free just because you don't put the key in the door to open it. You may not use it (knowingly), but it's there.